The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story Of Soviet Science
Language: English
Pages: 512
ISBN: 0813342805
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Ivan Pavlov was the most famous. In 1904, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his study of nervous mechanisms controlling the digestive glands. His surgical experiments created a new scientific discipline—physiology. Pavlov’s book Lectures on the Work of the Digestive Glands, published in Russian in 1897, was immediately translated into German, French, and English.11 As one of his devoted students, Professor Boris Babkin, wrote,“[A]fter 1898— the date when the German translation of Pavlov’s book
Archive, F. 518,Op. 2,D. 14, L. 47–48, cited (pp. 178–179) in Perchenok, F. F.,“Akademiya Nauk na ‘velikom perelome’” [The Academy of Sciences at the “great rupture”], in Okhotin, Nikita, and Arsenii Roginsky, eds., Zven’ya: Historical Almanac [The Links] (Moscow: Progress; Phoenix:Atheneum, 1991), vol. 1, pp. 163–238 (in Russian). 2. Tolz, Russian Academicians, p. 37. 3. A copy of the letter from the Academy of Sciences Archive in St. Petersburg, cited (pp. 93–95) in Samoilov,V. O., and Yu.
Breeding. Arrested in 1932 in Moscow, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after refusing to testify against Nikolai Koltsov. Released in 1936, worked at the Central Asian Research Institute of Silkworm Breeding in the city of Tashkent (Uzbekistan). In 1938, his monograph on genetics of silkworms was destroyed on the order of local officials. From 1939, at the All-Ukrainian Station of Silkworm Breeding. In 1941, volunteered for the army; served as a medical and intelligence officer. From 1945,
relationships between the colleagues at this laboratory were the same as those in thousands of regular laboratories:There were serious conflicts between Mairanovsky and his collaborators; especially between himself, Naumov, and Grigorovich. Both considered Mairanovsky to be professionally ignorant. It would be interesting to know the attitude of these “researchers” toward their work: How did they feel administering lethal poisons to healthy human beings, then observing the subsequent terrible
Lysenko’s interests. In 1923, he graduated from the Medical Department of First Moscow University. Like Mairanovsky, he joined the NKVD in 1937, and until 1951, “he was the NKVD-MGB employee as Head and Senior Researcher at several technical facilities.”126 Before that he had served as head of the Microbiology Laboratory at the Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine. In 1935, he was given a Doctor of Biology degree without defending his doctorate thesis. This was a mystery because degrees
